Case Study: Cybersixgill achieves major developer efficiency gains with Port

Cybersixgill cuts microservice scaffolding time 216% with Port

Cybersixgill, a cybersecurity company, faced challenges with its DevOps team being overwhelmed by developer requests for tasks like scaffolding new services and provisioning environments. They sought a transition to platform engineering to provide developer autonomy and reduce the DevOps burden. After finding open-source and other managed service options required too much investment, they turned to the vendor Port for its self-service developer portal.

Port implemented self-service actions, starting with simpler tasks like creating CD applications and updating production environments before tackling the complex process of scaffolding new microservices. This solution gave developers an intuitive, forms-based interface to perform tasks without deep Kubernetes knowledge, backed by proper guardrails. The results were significant: a 216% reduction in time to scaffold a new service, a 60x reduction in the time to make resource changes, and instant service catalog updates, all of which dramatically improved developer efficiency.

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